Waggon factory Gebrüder Gastell

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Imperial balcony at the Chaisenfabrik of the Gastell brothers
B- Motorcar 345 from Gastell in the Transport Museum in Frankfurt - Schwanheim

The Chaisen- and railroad car factory of the brothers Gastell , better known as wagon factory Brothers Gastell , was a manufacturer of railway - and tram - cars in Mainz . The site in Mainz-Mombach today bears the name "Alte Waggonfabrik".

history

The wagon factory was founded in 1845 and is therefore older than the first railway connection in Mainz . The founder was Kommerzienrat Otto Gastell . After he left the company on April 1, 1877, his son Albert Gastell took over management. Later his sons Josef Gastell , Franz Gastell and Otto Gastell formed the management.

First, wagons for the Taunus Railway were built at the location near Münsterplatz . For this purpose, railway tracks were laid on Ludwigsstrasse , which led towards the Rhine .

Today's historic yellow brick buildings with red brick structure were built from 1896 to 1910 according to plans by the architect Franz Philipp Gill and are now a listed building .

After the Second World War , the Phoenix Hall was the first hall to be rebuilt. The site of the wagon factory served after that as a special vehicle plant ( West wagon ), bus plant for Magirus-Deutz and Iveco and finally to the task of the Mainz plant by Iveco to 1994 in Mainz as a second plant until then only in Mainz- Gonsenheim based Mainzer tanks works MIP. After the failure of the conversion concept and the resulting bankruptcy of MIP and its parent company MIT Mainz Industrie Technologie GmbH, the site was finally sold to the Trier housing company TRIWO.

Todays use

Stop on the Alzey-Mainz railway line (2018)

The area of ​​the wagon factory with the Phönix-Halle in Mainz-Mombach (between Turmstraße and Am Schützenweg) was acquired in 2008 by the Berlin company BEOS GmbH for an international investor group and is used by various local artists , the evangelical free church Die Basis e. V. , trade , industry and logistics companies.

The Waggonfabrik stop on the Alzey – Mainz railway line is still a reminder of this chapter in Rheinhessen industrial history. Until 2011, it was made barrier-free with funds from the economic stimulus package II . The platform has been raised by 50 centimeters over a length of 170 meters and a width of 2.75 meters. The stop is served in both directions every hour by the RB 31 line.

See also

Catalog

  • Wagon factory Gebrüder Gastell. Mainz-Mombach. Railways and trams. Company catalog of the "Chaisen- und Eisenbahnwagen-Fabrik" (Chaisen- und Eisenbahnwagen-Fabrik) established by the Gastell brothers in 1845. Numerous railway and tram cars, railcars and interiors, technology, etc .; 50 sheets with 50 images in rotogravure, 17 × 24.5 cm, Mainz around 1912.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 3 ″  E